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A member of Brazil's Xikrin Nation holds a baby before the Indigenous Nations' Games in Pagagominas, Brazil, in November 2009. A French documentary by Thomas Balmes, "Babies," opened the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on April 29. The Focus Features film followed four babies in four places - Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco, and Tokyo – through their first year. Alex Almeida/Reuters/FILE

A baby sits in a basket while waiting to board a train in Nanjing, China, ahead of the traditional Spring Festival holiday, in January. Sean Yong/Reuters

Madame Marcus holds her newborn baby boy after giving birth at a makeshift hospital run by the Belgian First Aid and Support Team in a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just over a week after a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the city. Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

The E-trade baby became famous from a series of Super Bowl advertisements. The Grey New York agency made the commercials by first filming the baby in a highchair reacting to his mother. Later, the mouth movements of a 5-year-old actor, the voice of a 30-year-old, and the items in the room were added digitally. Business Wire

A woman holds her sleeping baby during South African President Jacob Zuma's visit to a poor whites' settlement in Pretoria, South Africa. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Seven-month-old MacKenzie Roark and her father, Greg, of Denver, Colo., prepare for the Colorado Rockies home opener against the San Diego Padres on April 9. David Zalubowski/AP

Runner Paula Radcliffe holds her baby and the British flag after winning the women's division at the New York City Marathon in November 2007. Seth Wenig/AP

A nurse tends to a group of newborn babies at No. 1 Xiangfan People's Hospital in China's Hubei Province in October 2009. Newscom/FILE

Saint Mary's basketball player Omar Samhan holds up Rocco Smith, the son of Associate Coach Kyle Smith, during an NCAA college basketball practice in Houston, Texas, on March 25. David J. Phillip/AP

A baby with mud on his face participates in the mud festival at Mimusubi shrine in Yotsukaido, Japan, on Feb. 25. Hundreds of local dwellers took part in the annual ritual held in a muddy rice paddy to pray for a good harvest and good health for babies throughout the year. Koji Sasahara/AP

A Uighur woman and her baby are seen in China's Xinjiang Province in July 2009. Eugene Hoshiko/AP/FILE

Seven babies sit in tummy tubs filled with water to cool down after a baby massage class held for young mothers in IJmuiden, Netherlands, on March 24, 2009. The 'cooling down' segment is to simulate a womb-like environment for the infants to experience warmth and comfort. United Photos/Reuters

A Burmese family with their young baby, seen here in July 2008, live in Clarkston, Ga., in a project outside Atlanta surrounded by other immigrant families. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/FILE

Jenny Guevarra, a loan specialist, watches over her 4-month-old baby girl, Liana Jasmine, as she naps in her playpen next to Guevarra's cubicle. Valley Credit Union in San Jose, Calif., is one of an estimated 100 workplaces that let employees care for their babies in their office or cubicle while at work. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor

A baby looks over her mother's shoulder during a church service at the Methodist Pentecostal Church of Chile in December 2009. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/FILE

A baby sits outside as her mother peers from their makeshift tent at a camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 7. Andres Leighton/AP/FILE

Katie Labiadia and her son, Ronan, do baby yoga. Moms and their babies take Itsy Bitsy Yoga at Mamas Move gym in April 2009. The class meets once a week for babies not yet able to crawl. Yoga is a great way to build strong muscles in infants, helping them prepare to sit up, roll over, and eventually walk. It is also thought to help with sleep and bonding with their mothers or caregivers. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/FILE

A baby is seen with her mother before leaving for resettlement in the US from the Mae La Refuge Camp near the Thai-Burmese border in August 2008. Andy Nelson/The Christian Science Monitor/FILE

Volunteer foster mom Jessica-Anne Becker holds Autumn Evans as her husband, David Becker, looks on. The Beckers cared for Autumn from the time she was 2 days old in June until they returned her to her birth mother in December 2009. The Beckers are a volunteer foster family for a Chicago-based social services program, and agreed to care for the baby for three to six months. M. Spencer Green/AP

Two babies pose in Gap's newest line of denim for babyGap. PRNewsFoto/Gap Inc.

UNICEF goodwill ambassador and football star David Beckham plays with a baby that is being weighed at a feeding center in Makeni, Sierra Leone, in January 2008. The UNICEF-supported center is the only one in the northern part of the country, which also has the highest under-5 mortality rate. Beckham visited Sierra Leone to call international attention to the issue of child survival, ahead of the UNICEF State of the World's Children 2008 report. David Turnley/AP

Children drink milk while waiting to be examined at a hospital in Hefei, China, in September 2008. Chinese officials failed to recall contaminated milk formula linked to the illness of more than 400 babies and at least one death. Reuters/FILE

A baby and her mother listen to a performer from the 'Companhia Musicalmente' group during a concert for babies in Sintra, Portugal, in April 2009. The baby concerts were created in 1998 by a group of musicians in Portugal inspired by the Music Learning Theory of North American author Edwin Gordon. The group wanted to give infants a first experience listening to live music, where they can also play and interact with the performers, other babies, parents, and relatives. Nacho Doce/Reuters/FILE

A South African woman, Laura Doman, visits with Selinah and her daughter at Roodepoort Child Welfare and Family Services. Selinah had trouble caring for the baby so Ms. Doman, a social worker, mediated an agreement with the father's family to help care for the child, an unusual setup in South African culture. Doman keeps track of more than 100 children who are orphans or whose parents cannot care for them. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/FILE

A Macedonian soldier kisses his baby before departing for Afghanistan during a send-off ceremony in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, on March 26. Boris Grdanoski/AP/FILE

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A teenage boy who posted a video online of himself criticizing Singapore's founding father and disparaging Christianity, shortly after the leader's death last week, has been arrested for 'threaten[ing] religious harmony' in the tightly censored country.

BySaeed Azhar, ReutersMarch 30, 2015

AFP

A Singapore teenager, who criticized Lee Kuan Yew on social media soon after the former leader's death, has been arrested and will be charged with making "insensitive and disparaging" comments about Christians, police said on Tuesday.